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Communist Party
Italian name	Partito Comunista
Secretary	Massimiliano Arif Ay
Members of the Federal Council	none
Founded	May 1944
Split from	Swiss Party of Labour (2014)
Headquarters	Via Varenna 66 6600 Locarno (Solduno)
Youth wing	Swiss Communist Youth
Membership(2018)	120
Ideology	Communism[1] Marxism-Leninism[1]
International affiliation	IMCWP World Anti-Imperialist Platform[2]
Colours	Red
National Council	0 / 200
Council of States	0 / 46
Cantonal legislatures	2 / 2,559
Website
www.partitocomunista.ch
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TheCommunist Party (Italian:Partito Comunista) is a political party mostly active in Southern Switzerland,Ticino andGrisons. From October 1944 until 2007, it acted as the Ticino section of theSwiss Party of Labour. In 2007, it decided to change its name to the Communist Party.^[3] In 2014, the party severed its ties with the Party of Labour. Its headquarters are inLocarno, Ticino.

In 2014, the party stopped its collaboration with the Swiss Party of Labour after 70 years of affiliation. The cantonal party renamed itself, and is now mainly active in the canton of Ticino and in the canton of Grisons, with cells in Geneva and in other cities. The current General Secretary is Massimiliano Arif Ay, elected in 2009. It gained one seat in Ticino's parliament in 2015, and increased its seat count to 2 in 2019.^[4][5]

The Swiss Communist Youth is the youth wing of the Communist Party.^[6] Its General Secretary is Luca Frei.^[7]

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